PT BOAT PRESENTATION ART POSTER, POSTER CALENDAR AND 28-Page WALL CALENDAR NOW AVAILABLE
There are three current products featuring the ELCO 80' PT Boat Interior/Exterior drawn in isometric projection and illustrated as detailed in standard factory Series PT 103 - PT 196 blueprints.
This drawing as well as many others were drawn by hand in the old standard technical manual illustrating method with 30/60/90 degree triangles, t-square and proportional dividers along with lots of erasers - I'm unfortunately not CAD literate.
Now Available:
13" x 19"
PT Poster Art - 80' ELCO PT Series PT103/PT196 - Digitally produced in color on heavy 100# gloss cover stock. - Go to Poster page - Poster are now sold exclusively by PT Boats, Inc.
11" x 17"
28-Page Wall Calendar - 80' ELCO PT Series PT103/PT196 - Digitally produced in color, heavy 100# gloss color stock is used for the outside cover pages and 100# gloss book stock for the inside pages. - Go to Wall Calendar page
The calendar includes 13 different PT boat drawings including detailed lower deck plan, longitudinal sections, exterior views, larger isometric drawing of various section that better illustrate the boats interior and multiple exterior configurations.
The image below is my computer work station displaying the three current products, PT Poster, Poster Calendar and Wall Calendar. Please note the items may appear small, but both the Mac and PC monitors are large 24" LCD's:
A short history and explanation of the PT boat drawing projects.
Below are is a early pencil drawing (as well as a few other projects) as I began plotting and drawing the boat. The drawing size was roughly 48" x 36" and drawn on vellum, first plotting with light blue (non-repro) pencil lead then later as images were composed, darken with H2 pencil lead. Drawing elements were drawn with the use of a proportional divider to transfer scale from two-dimensional blueprint drawings and transferring the scale to 30/90/30 degree projection (isometric) with standard drafting triangles to drafting vellum.
After the plotting and construction from as many ELCO blueprints I could muster-up and in many instances examine photos published in several books, the pencil layout drawing was complete. From this point the completed vellum drawings were cut into many section small enough to fit on to my scanner and scan into my Macintosh as hi-resolution black and white bit images (600 dpi PICT files). After all images were store onto the computer, I open each image file into PhotoShop and reassembled the entire 48"x36" line drawings and saved this drawing as a hi-resolution worker file.
With the drawing data now digital, I opened the files into Adobe Illustrator as a grayed template and began to trace the entire drawing in black (Bezier Curves**) lines. After the line work was completed certain areas were made into flat planes where colors could be added to the drawing.
Although the actual interiors appear to be white and some wood tones. I used slight yellowing colors to keep the room and interior components definition clearer. The interior is so busy that an all white color would make the layout somewhat confusing and very busy for the untrained eye.
The drawing used were ELCO engineering drawings purchased from PT Boats, Inc. All photo references were from published photos typically found in Victor Chin's and Frank D. Johnson's books and what limited images that could be found on the internet back in 1998-2000. The main isometric finished drawing took approximately 230 hours to complete, with an additional hundred hours for the support drawings shown in the 28-page calendar.
Some of drawings below are for other drawing projects such as the ELCO 78' PT-41, the Higgins boats and Huckins boats. These are all projects currently in work (actual over a period from 1997 through current time.) .
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